Canadian Encyclopedia
The
Canadian Encyclopedia is a print and electronic
encyclopedia about the nation of
Canada its geography, history, and people. Canada had been without an encyclopedia since the
1957 Encyclopedia Canadiana. In response to this Mel Hurtig, a stauch Canadian nationalist, launched a project to create a wholey new Canadian Encyclopedia and recruited over 3000 authors to write for it. The first edition of the Canadian Encyclopedia was published in three volumes in
1985 a revised and expanded edition was released in
1988. The company later published the Junior Canadian Encyclopedia. Currently Canadian Heritage, a government department, is paying to have the encyclopedia available free online to all Canadians.
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